wow some heated people in here. Please explain where I said I was "superior to the local Pilot's"???
All I said was that I was employed as an EXPAT and as such the company paid EXPAT allowances to attract my experience here to fly their Aircraft.
Otherwise I can absolutely guarantee you 100% NONE of the EXPATS would come here, why would we bother?
LEP's are welcome to get as much as they can as far as I'm concerned. I don't want them HELD back for one minute and I don't think that is what I said.
Trouble is that the fact of the matter is they are locals and that can't be changed.
What can change is the bargaining power of the AOA through a bigger membership base. Then the locals can push their case thru their representative ( yep the AOA )
While many of the LEP and expats do nothing but bitch on the side nothing will happen, for that is certain.